LEAFF 2023

CHERISH THE WORLD

LEAFF introduces a new strand dedicated to recognising issues related to the environment. Through thought-provoking documentaries, we wish to open up a dialogue about the environment which is affecting everyone’s lives, not only in the UK or East Asia but the world.

Where has all the pollution gone?

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan | 1991 | 47 mins | PG

Thursday October 26, 17:30
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Where Has All The Pollution Gone? exposes air pollution caused by Japan’s largest Kawasaki Steel Corp. on a scale of ten times the size of Disneyland. Since the steelworks started running, almost every local resident has been suffering from severe asthma which resulted in a 17-year long court battle with the company. Filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu traces one civil servant’s involvement in the growth of pollution administration that took place during the height of Japan’s economic surge in the 60s and discloses the connection between air pollution and state policy.

SURA: A LOVE SONG

Dir. Hwang Yun | Korea | 2022 | 108 mins | U

Thursday October 26, 19:00
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After quitting filmmaking about the tidal flat that underwent Saemangeum Seawall Project a few years ago, she moved to Gunsan-si, a city of Saemangeum, as she seemed destined to. Sura: A Love Song delivers the course of rediscovering the beauty of the tidal flat working together with the Citizens’ Survey Group on Saemangeum that has continued its research for nearly twenty years.